i did read till page 6. got a little repetitive though. i'm just stoked on getting a new bike. its about time. i'm going from an 06 stinky thats small for me. to a Sinister R9.
you guys realize how easily road wheels taco right.......... u'd be dead within 10 seconds. i saw a vid of some roadie hitting a dog going up in the tour de france. his wheel shatters and he goes face first into the ground. i laughed.
did you read the WHOLE thread? :-) We know the risks. We know our bike parts. We are prepared. WE ARE SPARTANS
I think he actually thought the thread was about running over a dog?!
you guys realize how easily road wheels taco right.......... u'd be dead within 10 seconds. i saw a vid of some roadie hitting a dog going up in the tour de france. his wheel shatters and he goes face first into the ground. i laughed.
The dog/bike incident in the TdF is a relatively bad example. The wheel didn't taco. The dog hit it from the side HARD, and those wheels have no longitudinal strength. They break from very little pressure from the side. However, latitudinal strength is very strong. Obviously not as strong as DH wheels, but still very, very strong (they do ride over heavy cobblestone in the TdF).
you guys realize how easily road wheels taco right.......... u'd be dead within 10 seconds. i saw a vid of some roadie hitting a dog going up in the tour de france. his wheel shatters and he goes face first into the ground. i laughed.
Pretty freaking hard to do considering those wheels are damn hard to vertically break, and it only weighed like 400g, which is like half a DH rim for an entire wheel.
It could be done. 36h deepvs to high flange tank hubs, cyclocross knobblies. You MIGHT make it to the bottom with something resembling a bike.
I'll tell you right now, ITS NOT WORTH IT. If you walked the trail once you'd most definatly understand. Most of the really good riders are scared shitless on downhill bikes. On a road bike, i gurantee you wouldn't even make it down the first 25 meters of the trail haha.
he didnt say you coudlnt be on the brakes the whole time
I'll tell you right now, ITS NOT WORTH IT. If you walked the trail once you'd most definatly understand. Most of the really good riders are scared shitless on downhill bikes. On a road bike, i gurantee you wouldn't even make it down the first 25 meters of the trail haha.
he didnt say you coudlnt be on the brakes the whole time
I'm going to go so far and say - with the current trail conditions - we'd need a hearse or at the minimum a medi helo if someone dared it on a road bike.